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Noun- An ornamental spot worn on the forehead chiefly by Hindus.

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Usage examples (24)
  • You will carry the red tilak of Siva on your forehead.
  • He raised his palmer-gloved hand and touched his forefinger to the tilak over my third eye.
  • But at the end was always the rat-faced girli lifting her hand to my tilak and taking me apart again.
  • # He participated in the funeral procession of Bal Gangadhar tilak from Sardar Griha to Chowpatty in 1920.
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